The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
Official Journal of the Tovn.
OFFYCIAL JOURNAL Of the DEMO
CRATIC PARTY Of RAPIDES
Our Agents..
The Duty.iof Workingmen.

If workingmen want reform, not OF
the pinchbeck kind-the kind that the
politic schemers howl about when they
want to get the Gins" Out and get
themselves in-but thu genuine article
eighteen carats fine, they can have it
by pulling altogether and pulling with
all their strength. 1t is grand day
for the republic when the laboring
classes organize for the purpose Of ma
king government purer and more
honest.
Let them go ahead with a firm de
termination to denounce the "sham"
in everything.
Let them move on the earthworks
Of intrenched corruption wherever they
find it.
Let them start an avalanche of bal
lots that will bury out of sight every
politician who does not believe that
public office is public trust.
Let them make it thunder all round
the horizon against the invasions OF
the peoples rights by which monopoly
fills its pockets from the earnings OF
the masses.
A cyclone of that kind, sweeping
across the continent and tearing exist
ing evils up by the roots, is something
to be welcomed, not feared.
If it is started by the workingmen
rather than by the statesmen of the
land, all the better.
1t will show, what the Herald has
always asserted, that both the heart
and the brain Of the wage Garner are
in the right place.
Now then, gentlemen, what do you
propose to do and how do you propose
to do it You belong to the Demo
cratic party pure and simple, and mi.
nus any "sham." That party is the
party Of the masses; therefore it is
your party. You will insist that your
rights as citizens and wage earners
shall be jealousy guarded by wise
and vigorous legislation |? Good. You
will require the leaders of that party
to remove all unnecessary taxes and
burdens, to get rid of corrupting sur
plus in the treasury, to put an imme'
date stop to the waste of the peoples
money, and to give the poor man
every possible benefit of the situation'
Good. You are right.
Under Republican regime monop
civ was rampant. See for yourselves
how it has grown during the last TWEEN
ty years. Great corporations have re-
ceived great privileges, by which s
few have become immensely rich a
the expense of the people. That kind
of Republicanism was sham and
humbug.
You expressed an opinion on the
subject in 1884, when you said, owe
have had enough of you-step down.
Under the same regime your land has
been stolen by the million acres-you
see that we are calling spade spade
- and the farms - your farm which
your children or your children's chill
dren will want by and by, have been
taken from you by hocus pocus mixed
with perjury waist deep.
You want to check monopoly ant
reclaim this stolen land' 1t can bt
done and you can help to do it
When Mr.. Cleveland went to The
White House, at your bidding, he wa:
pledged to rip open these plots for ag
crandizement. lie has been opposed
by interested parties, ny powerful cat
tie syndicates, by railroad corporation
with millions at command, aud shrewt
lobbyists in the Capitol to Influence
Legislation. But he is good fighter
Your party, the party of the democrac!.
mast stand by him. During the las
two years an area of territory more
than twice the extent of Ireland hat
been reclaimed, and the land grabber.
have been told, You can't have it,
Empty your pockets of stolen property
- New York Herald.